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4 Iran Considers Death Penalty for Bloggers, Russia Jails One
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5 Blogging For Nothing: Matthews Rejects Blogs as Sources
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6 Book Bag: Awkward Family Photos Blog Gets a Deal
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7 Website du Jour: When Love Breaks Down
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8 Puzzling Trend: Blogs to Books
The Awkward Family Photos blog got a book deal back in August, which seems like forever ago in Internet-meme time. This week, the Awkward Family Photos coffee-table book is finally out, along with Sh*t My Dad Says, inspired by the brilliant Twitter feed of the same name. I'm happy to see my favorite blogs and microblogs succeed, but I must admit, the blog-to-book concept puzzles me somewhat. The Read more
The James Beard Foundation Awards — the culinary world's Oscars equivalent — kicked off last night with its media portion. Among the winners? In books, Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc at Home nabbed general cooking book honors (the award will look good next to last week's IACP nod). Travel Channel's Andrew Zimmern won in the television category for Best TV Food Personality, beating out Alton Brown and Read more
Children grow up these days with technology in hand. From the television remote to durable digital cameras made especially for them, many youngsters have a good grasp on the latest and greatest items companies have to offer before their parents! There are numerous ways families stay super connected, but we're curious how your kiddo ranks? Read more
Ten ways to spice up pumpkin seeds.— Chow Kale and bacon make one delicious combination. — The Epi Log Josh Ozersky questions the patriotism of the humble hamburger. — Vanity Fair Fabio Viviani's latest gig? Pizza delivery man. — Grub Street NY Cook's Illustrated's editor, Christopher Kimball, is ready to wage war on the blogosphere. — Eat Me Daily The Bocuse d'Or USA is now Read more
"Before there were blogs, there were zines," writes the blogger behind When Love Breaks Down, a bitter but hilarious breakup blog with a twist. The breakup happened more than 10 years ago, and the blog is based on pages ripped from a zine the writer published back in 1998. Each post features a page from the zine in all its cringe-inducing glory, complete with modern-day commentary, like this Read more
One of my favorite web finds of the past few months, Awkward Family Photos, is moving from photo blog to photo album. In a fairly predictable development, the bloggers behind this brilliantly funny site just scored a book deal with Three Rivers press. So now you can have not only your awkward family photos adorning your coffee table, but other people's, too! Bloggers Mike Bender and Doug Chernack Read more
Chris Matthews has limits! When he's not saying things like MSNBC "is the network of the 21st century," he's upholding archaic journalism standards. Last night on Hardball, he cut off a reporter from the NY Daily News when she introduced blogs as the source of rumors — and, yes, she clearly presented them as rumors — about Caroline Kennedy. He said, "Let's stick to journalism. I don't do Read more
The fella behind the ubiquitous blog Stuff White People Like has published a book based on the blog. I've been interested in how this might turn out and stumbled across this review of the book in Variety: Anyone who reads Stuff White People Like without perusing the blog it is based upon first, might well wonder what all the fuss is about. Stripped of the blog's media riffs, hyperlinks and swiped Read more
The beauty of the Internet is getting to say exactly what you want in a public forum, right?(Well that and stalking ex-boyfriends and shopping at work, but I digress.) The ability to speak one's mind in bytes and blips has landed one blogger with a jail sentence for extremism. A Russian man who called the local police “scum” and calling for the clean-up of the force he blogged that the police Read more
Kaboom: A Soldier's War Journal (subtitled: Embrace the Suck) is embracing no more. The blog, kept by a soldier who wrote under the name LT G in Iraq, known as one of the most honest and compelling dispatches of blogging from the warfront, has been shut down by those above his pay grade. Kaboom's LT G wrote often about his periodic wide-open disregard for military decorum (sometimes openly Read more
